genesis vs Newspaper-child

genesis is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,671 use genesis and 197 use Newspaper-child.

Newspaper-child sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (genesis: 24, Newspaper-child: 47).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, genesis went from 0.23% to 0.19% of all tracked sites, while Newspaper-child went from 0.03% to 0.02%. Newspaper-child is gaining ground faster in our index.

No. A site runs a single WordPress theme, so genesis and Newspaper-child are mutually exclusive.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.